Stéphane Moulin, coach of SM Caen: “I am very angry this evening because we had a first half unworthy of the level of league 2 in attitudes, behavior. It was just unacceptable. We obviously reframed things at half-time. They received a blower but it is not normal to be obliged to come to this to be able to see what one is entitled to expect.
Indeed, the second half could only be better. We did not finish our actions well but at least we had the merit of doing our job. We lost that match because we were absent in the first half without having conceded much either. It’s like in Pau. It looks the same but in reverse. The first half in Pau was very good and the second not so good. And there the first half was catastrophic and the second best but for the same result because in football you have to play two halves.
I do not understand. We are in a difficult situation. I didn’t expect that at all but that’s the nature of this group. He is capable of doing very good things and when you think things are better he is capable of being absent as he was tonight.
This evening I am very angry because beyond the way to go about it technically or tactically, it is above all that we were destitute.
It’s not the technical level that worries me but it’s the attitude we showed. Not only do I not understand but it makes me angry. In the first half, we did nothing. Passive, no mobility finally nothing what. Total nothingness. I have never experienced this. I do not understand. not. Tonight, if we had played the whole match at our level, we would not have lost. It annoys me and it tires me to live and always repeat the same things. We will continue to blow hot and cold. I don’t know if there will be an awareness. We are not saved, far from it. And this match does not reassure me at all.”